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No Plot
I wondered if it would come up. It did. There is no plot in the first half of the book. This is not exactly by-design, but it’s not accidental, either. There is a “theme”, but that’s not the same thing. Our intrepid heroes don’t have a goal. They’re not intrepid heroes, yet. They’re just two…
No one’s waiting, but…
Chapter 18. Well… Weapons issue resolved. Some monster needs to be killed, hacked into bits, and the best parts brought back for dinner. That has happened. These people (wolves?) just don’t shut up. Chapter 18 is now at 27 pages. It’s amazing how much dialog spews forth when you take a bunch of pups on…
Axis Orientation
I’ve found it useful to envision human behavior as set of rotated normal curves. Pick some attribute and incorrectly assume a normal distribution of it. Now spin that curve around its peak. You get a normal “mound”. Each individual attribute is its own curve. The mound is all of them together. We’re each a point…